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Iraqi kurd EFL learners’ uses of conjunctive adverbials in essays.

Raza Aziz, Awder, Bahadeen Mohammed Nuri, Rebaz·2021·Arab World English Journal
DOI 10.24093/awej/vol12no2.15

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The quality of any academic essay highly depends on cohesion and coherence since they affect the overall quality and the tone of the writing to a great extent. Conjunctive adverbials are among the types of devices which logically help linking sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into essays. Conjunctive Adverbials ultimately affect the cohesion and coherence of any piece of writing. This paper investigates conjunctive adverbials in essays written by Iraqi Kurd EFL learners at the undergraduate level. It explicitly attempts to discover what specific conjunctive adverbials types are overused, underused, or misused and in what positions in sentences. A learner corpus of 50 complete essays was compiled for this study. The findings showed that the participants tended to use more sequential and additive conjunctive adverbials than adversative and causals. Additionally, the results demonstrated that the learners relied heavily on a limited number of conjunctive adverbials, mainly in the initial position. However, the conjunctive adverbial category affects its place in the sentence.

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Authors
Raza Aziz, A., & Bahadeen Mohammed Nuri, R.
Venue
Arab World English Journal
Publisher
AWEJ Publishing
Published
2021-06-15
Volume
12
Issue
2
Pages
222-237
ISSN
2229-9327
DOI
10.24093/awej/vol12no2.15
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